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Speaker 1: But there is a lot happening around the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: all about raising funds for Ronald McDonald House charities, and

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Speaker 1: we know that Ronald McDonald House provides accommodation and support

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Speaker 1: Teagan Can, who recently used the service while her son

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Speaker 2: Good morning Tiagan, Good morning team.

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Speaker 1: And also joined of course by McDonald's coordinator for McHappy Day,

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Speaker 1: Peter DoD. Good morning to you, Peter, Good morning Eadie.

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Speaker 1: It's lovely to have you both in the studio. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. And of course you know,

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Speaker 1: we know McHappy Day is such an awesome day. It's

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Speaker 1: such a fun day, you know, everybody rolling out, whether

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Speaker 1: you're going to buy yourself a meal at Magers and

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Speaker 1: out there actually raising money. But so much money raised

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Speaker 1: for a really really worthy cause. And Tigan, you know

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Speaker 1: just how important this fundraising is. Your son recently had

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Speaker 1: to go away for heart surgery, didn't he.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So Lincoln was diagnosed later in life with heart

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't come back down like when you go to rest.

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Speaker 3: So basically when he stopped, his heart rate didn't come down,

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Speaker 3: day level, Like you can imagine like not being able

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Speaker 3: to play it. He says, with your mates, because your heart,

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Speaker 1: Well, and he's fifteen, right, so it's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 3: And it was just simple things like his mates would like,

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Speaker 3: you know, he'd tell me stories. You're like, oh, mom,

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Speaker 3: come home today, and my mates would like punch me

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Speaker 3: So funny about it, but it was just it was

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Speaker 3: you're holding it together for your child. You don't realize

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Speaker 1: You're like, it's just routine, it's nothing.

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Speaker 2: You haven't heart surgery. It's just totally routine. Yeah, And

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Speaker 3: He was totally chillous cucumber about it, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: That's what you're doing, absolutely, And that's where then you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, lots of families need to go into state

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Speaker 3: And it's just something simple like going like if you

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Speaker 2: But it does because this.

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Speaker 3: So many services that are not offered to territories just

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Speaker 2: Physicians here, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: So many have to travel.

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Speaker 1: So many people are having to travel. Peter Wash is

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Speaker 1: planned for tomorrow that people can get involved. Yeah, tell

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Speaker 4: From eleven till two, we'll have our local members in stores,

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Speaker 4: all our local media partners yep, and local sporting groups

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Speaker 4: might even make us.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, like what what's on the menu

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Speaker 1: towards Ronald McDonald house. I'm assuming that there's always the

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Speaker 1: There's always the buckets there that people can donate to.

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Speaker 1: Tell us some of the other stuff that you can do.

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Speaker 4: Purchase a big Mac and two dollars from every big Mac.

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Speaker 4: We'll go straight to Ronin McDonald house charities. We have

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Speaker 4: our silly socks helping hands. Yeah, cash donations. You can

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Speaker 2: Yep. Good stuff.

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Speaker 1: What look, I don't need any excuse really to go

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest about it.

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Speaker 3: Funny story. I'll tell you, Actually you didn't see me there, No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: nothing about when Lincoln was coming out of anesthesia. You're like,

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Speaker 3: like and she's like, he's demanding, and I'm like, what

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Speaker 3: do you mean? And he's still like drunk, like you

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Speaker 3: don't remember this, but he's like, I want a double

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Speaker 3: geese pickle. And she's like, I can't get you that, mate,

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Speaker 3: and he's like.

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Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. Get Ronald on the phone, and I

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Speaker 1: was good to raise money for Ronald McDonald house.

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Speaker 2: And it is such a wonderful day.

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Speaker 1: So everybody get down to maccas tomorrow, get yourself a

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Speaker 1: big mac.

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Speaker 2: It is our excuse to have a big mac tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Have a feed at Mackers and make sure you dig deep.

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Speaker 1: It's lovely to have you both in the studio this morning. Tiagan,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time. Peter, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining me as well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you